Vehicle-door.



No. 869,249. PATENTED OCT. 29. 1907. L LUDWIG & W. BRADBURY.

VEHICLE DOOR.

APPLIUATIO'N FILED MAR. 20.1906.

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l INVENTOBS my WITNESSES ATTORNEY JACOB LUDWIG AND WILLIAM BRADBURY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

VEHICLE-DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oet. 29, 1907.

Application tiled March 20, 1906. Serial No. 306,995

To all whom it may concern: n

Be it known that we, J ACOB LUDWIG and WILLIAM BRADBURY, citizens oi' the United States, residing at Newark, in the county oi Essex and State oi` New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle- Doors; and we do hereby declare the following to be a iull, clear, and exact description ol the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it. appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which orm a part oi this specification.

This device is adapted for use on doors that when shut have their bottom edges a considerable distance above the sill and particularly in the case of milk wagons when the sill is depressed, in iact the whole wagon body built lower in the center to iacilitate the frequent entrance and exit oi' the driver. Sliding doors now attached to these wagons necessitate vthe construction oi a slide way down as ar as the sill. My invention is designed to overcome this, and I employ a plate that is Iolded up within the door when the door is opened, but is caused to drop by the force of gravity when the door is shut, to fill the space between the sill and the bottom oi the door. i

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of part of a wagon body rame. Fig. 2 is an elevation of part oi the same, with the door broken away in part, and Fig. 3 is a part section and part elevation of Fig. l.

I have illustrated the usual form oi wagon body frame IO with the depressed sill 1I, and provided with the usual track l2 at the top.

The door I3 is suspended as usual by the hangers I4 and is arranged to slide back in the usual way into the space l5. When the door is shut, a plate I6 depends therefrom, being secured by the pivot pin I7 and it may be iurther sustained by the slot 2() in the frame.

When the door is slid back, the pivot pin I7 tends to pull the plate IG with it, and the edge I6 oi the plate riding over the point l0 of the ira-me causes the plate I6 to assume the position shown in Fig. 2, being inclosed in the space I8 within the door, the lower edge ofthe plate resting on the bar I9. This plate, oi course` might be put on the inside or the outside of the door, but the drawing shows the' preferred form on account oi its compactness and freedom from interruption.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 'lhe combination with a door frame, of a door being formed in its lower portion of two panels forming a recess between them, a plate tting in the recess and adapted to extend therefrom when the door is closed, and a pin passing through the panels and the plate to pivot the plate to `the door, the panels concealing the plate when the door is open.

In testimony, that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our hands this 17th day of March 1906.

JACOB LUDWIG. WILLIAM BRADBURY.

Witnesses WM. H. CIMFIELD, E. A. PELL. 

